Re: X doesn't start for user without admin rights

Re: X doesn't start for user without admin rights

[Eliot Moss]

I wonder if the issue is that the less privileged user cannot create a log file, socket, or similar thing is one of the usual places. This would look like failure to create a lock file because another user has it open. Either way, creating the lock file fails.

Regards -- Eliot Moss
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Re: X doesn't start for user without admin rights

[Jon TURNEY]

On 05/03/2011 14:07, Paul Maier wrote:
> X starts fine under a user with local administrator rights.
> When logged in to the same machine with another user that has no admin rights,
> X won't start.
> 
> The log indicates that another X were already running, but it's not.
> 
> Output on the console is:
> 
> giving up.
> /bin3/startxwin:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> /bin3/startxwin:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> 
> Log attached.

> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/<PCNAME>:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed

Assuming you don't have IPv6 installed, this last line should be the
significant error here.

You should check if /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 exists and is owned by an administrator
(this unix socket should be removed when the X server exits) and that the
directory is writeable by the user you are attempting to run the X server with.

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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X doesn't start for user without admin rights

[Paul Maier]

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Hi,

X starts fine under a user with local administrator rights.
When logged in to the same machine with another user that has no admin rights,
X won't start.

The log indicates that another X were already running, but it's not.

Output on the console is:

giving up.
/bin3/startxwin:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
/bin3/startxwin:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.


Log attached.

Thanks for help!

Regards,
  Paul

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Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.9.0.0 (10900000)
Build Date: 2010-10-12

Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command line:

/bin/XWin :0 -emulate3buttons 100 -logverbose 3 -multiwindow 

ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1280 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - native DPI x 96 y 96
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/<PCNAME>:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running


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